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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
I'm also not wrong about the construction of this team. Burke is still in charge of the operations and has hired the scouts and have given them the mandate on what he's looking for. This mandate is the reason why guys like Troy Brouwer was targeted. His edge and truculence was what appealed to the team and now 95% of the fan base hates him.
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I could have sworn there was more to it than that. Maybe something along the lines of being a proper RW, RH shot, history of being able to play anywhere in the top 9 and us having a major hole on the right side.
But sure, let's just pick out the truculent part and ignore everything else because Brian Burke is in the organization and the mastermind behind everything.
Since Treliving took over at the end of April 2014
- Traded for Dougie Hamilton (Truculent!)
- Signed Michael Frolik
- Re-signed Paul Byron (extra truculent)
- Re-sign Michael Ferland (Burke's finger prints all over this)
- Draft Matthew Tkachuk (something something lack of skill)
Other notable drafts
- Rasmus Andersson
- Oliver Kylington
- Andrew Mangiapane
- Dillon Dube
- Adam Fox
- Linus Lindstrom
- Matthew Phillips
compared to our vast future grinders
- Stepen Falkovsky?
- Mitchell Mattson?
Probably wouldn't count the likes of Eetu Tuulola, Adam Ruzicka who have more skill to offer. Didn't include the picks of Hunter Smith, Adam Ollas-Mattsson or Austin Carroll since Treliving only just joined the organization.
Bottom line, let's just stop with this nonsense that Burke is the real general manger and Treliving is a figurehead brought on to repeat the word "process".